We Need a photo of Don, if anyone has one.
Meanwhile we are using a military band photo from the Chester P. Bailey
packet

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FROM THE ARGONNE FRONT TO FLANDERS FIELDS. Mansfield Boy Saw
Service all Along the Line – Had Many Wonderful and Exciting Experiences,
and Came Out Without Injury. Donald V. Hoard, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph S. Hoard, of this boro, arrived in town Saturday night, his
father meeting him at Elmira and bringing him back in their car.
Donald has been in the States since March 27, but various things conspired
to prevent him from getting home before, the last thing being the quarantine
placed on Camp Sherman. However, May 1 he received his honorable
discharge and on the 3rd he arrived here. He left here in April,
1918, and was sent to Camp Lee, Va., attached to Co. M, 145th Inf., a National
Guard regiment, in which he served during the Argonne drive, later being
attached to Headquarters Company, and then the 145th Reg. Band, with which
he returned to the States and played in various places. On June 15,
1918, the Company left Hoboken on the Leviathan, and his history from then
on is the same as that of the other members of his company which we have
referred to from time to time, with the exception that Donald was among
those who escaped injury and fought it out with the Hun all along the line
until they gave the kaiser’s men the surprise of their lives up in Belgium,
and hastened the signing of the armistice. He had many close calls,
once having been completely buried when a high explosive shell exploded
near him covering himself and a corporal completely over with the earth
which it threw up. He fought in the Baccarat sector, Avocourt (St.
Mihiel sector), Pannes sector of Meuse-Argonne offensive, and in the Flanders
offensive, thereby seeing much of the hardest fighting of the war